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With many of the government overreaches, I hold judges ultimately responsible. I expect politicians and bureaucrats to over reach--lust for power is why they're there. It's the judge's job to keep them in check and the judiciary fails regularly and miserably.

Obama and his cohorts judge shop. They use this unethical practice to get what they want. So even if we can assume that most judges are angels on earth, we have proof that Obama and team will just keep going to different judges, one of the non-angelic, to find one who will grant their request. So no, in the aggregate, NO we cannot trust judges to keep data mining (Prism) "honest". BTW there are no angels on earth, at times judges do act based on their own biases, political motives or in error.

I think we can assume that the federal government has access to all personal information about us. This is frightening.

We should be asking about what our banks, brokerage companies, and credit card companies are providing the government. Likely everything. Regardless, it appears the Federales now have access to your online banking -- and if they do, who doesn't?

Moreover, it doesn't matter if "federal judges can be trusted" to keep government evesdropping "honest," (an oxymoron from a moron, as Bullwinkle Moose might say)...Obama can claim that, as "Commander in Chief,"--(that title that has come in the past decade to refer to one we must view as a minor deity)--he can ignore and overrule any speculative block a maverick federal judge might try to place in the government's way in its rape of our civil liberties.

An accountant or auditor who tries to keep his dishonest superiors "honest" is soon...unemployed!